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Porogymnaspis mesochitinosa (Green, 1922) (Diaspididae: Porogymnaspis)

Aonidia mesochitinosa Green 1922a: 1009. Type data: SRI LANKA: Hakgala, on Canthium montanum. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Porogymnaspis mesochitinosa (Green, 1922); Borchsenius 1966: 207. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Female scale bright castaneous, regularly ovoid, dorsal area slightly concave, 1.0 mm long. Adult female subcircular, pygidium not projecting, its outer margin evenly rounded. Cephalothorax with a large circumscribed area more strongly chitinized. Margin of abdomen with a close series of minute, bluntly conical tubercles. Margin of pygidium with 5 pairs of short but moderately broad lobes, of which the median are the largest, the others decreasing in size to the outermost, 0.5-0.6 mm long (Green, 1922a).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Green (1922a).